PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 1 NZ Follows Australia into £12,000,000 Aircraft Deal 13 New Bid for Second Sydney- P-NG Air Service .. .. 14 Three Lost in Aircraft off Lae .. 14 New Caledonia Calm But Sympathetic to de Gaulle 15 The Butter Factor in Copra Price 15 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Writes of What Made News in the Hub of the Pacific 16 New Governors for Fiji, Netherlands New Guinea 16 New Guinea Chinese Be come Australian Citizens 17 Plans for SPC Conference in Rabaul 17 Credit Scheme for P-NG Servicemen is Too Late for Some 18 Fiji Taxpayers Sour —Though the Ship is Fine 18 New Caledonia Disowns a Busy Delegation 19

Commentary: The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look at the Pacific and the World 21

Editor’S Mailbag .. 23

Territories’ Talk-Talk .. 25 Just What a Coffee Invest ment Does Cost in New Guinea 29 New Guinea Has a Trade Tobacco Factory—Fiji Has Stars and Crowns .. .. 33 Northern District Could be the Garden of Papua .. 35 S. Pacific Federation idea Poorly Received by Con servatives 37 More Facilities for Fiji Deep Sea Fishing 39 FIJI TALANOA Nakatawa Talks of This and That .. 41

A Minister of State Among the Coral Heads of Poly nesia 45 They are Trying to Reduce Fiji’s Overseas Trading Gap 46 It’s Time for Fiji to Seek More Self-Government, says R. W. Robson .. .. 49 Ava Ava Islanders Were Jarred, they Say 53 Cook Islands Takes First Steps Towards a Pearlshell Farm 57 Drama in Hides’ Last Journey Beyond the Kubea 59 Sukuna, Most Famous Fijian, Dies at Sea 61 Building a New Nation in New Guinea —Some Advice from Colonel Allen . .. 65 Coffee, Too. is a Matter of Taste —NG Planters Battle With Australian Consu mers 69

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; Cross quiz, Profile, 78; Once a King on Maron, 79; There was History in these Pacific Ships, 80; April Showers in Fiji, 81; Raro tonga’s Rock of Ages, 82; Do You Remember? 83; Book Reviews 84

Pacific Shipping And

Cruising Yachts . . 99

Pacific Report: Round

up of the Month’s News and Pictures (Index p. 13) 115

Obituary: Rev. K. D.

Grove; Hon. Tu’ivakano; R. P. Cooper; J. C. Mie decke; Lady Buck; I. E.

Walker; Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna; Phillip Rue; Sis ter Mary Laurent 146

Sports Review 148

Shipping and Airways Time tables 151 Commerce and Produce .. 160

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